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Delegation Attends Funeral Of Mbanderu Chief

The OvaMbanderu chief passed away in the Namibian capital of Windhoek last Wednesday at the age of 84. He was deputy chairperson of the Traditional Leaders Council in Namibia. He suffered several strokes in November 2004 and again in 2005. In...

By Staff Writer 21 January 2008

BCL Fights Emmisions

Addressing a Kgotla meeting in Mmadinare on Friday, Kedikilwe said experts have indicated that the technology is available but it is very expensive and it may even render the mine unprofitable in the end. He indicated that if the technology was...

By Onalenna Modikwa
Staff Writer 21 January 2008

Moupo's Challenger Alleges Crooked Tricks

Maemo Bantsi has written an uncompromising letter to the constituency elections committee chairperson that during one of the meetings of the constituency, the chairperson of the elections informed the meeting that the closing date for submission of...

By Oarabile Mosikare
Correspondent | 21 January 2008

No Love Lost

After the ouster, Mothei was accused by BNF members of conniving with the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) councillors to stage a coup against Ramaotwana. He was hauled before the BNF disciplinary committee for failing to abide by the party caucus...

By Lekopanye Mooketsi
Correspondent 21 January 2008

OUT TO LUNCH

This was when human resources management was really just a clerical function concerned with creating, updating, and generally managing employment records. Then, people seemed to get jobs just because they applied to the right place and time, not...

SHAMEELA WINSTON 21 January 2008

Discovery Metals To Drill Further Following Good Results

"The drill results from holes PD202 and PD203 indicate that the Plutus copper-silver mineralisation extends south-west of the current southern boundary, suggesting there is further potential to increase the size of the Plutus resource," Discovery...

By Wanetsha Mosinyi
Staff Writer 21 January 2008

Inflation To Hit 8.5% - Analyst

Commenting after the publishing of inflation data for December last week, Maungo Lebanna said excessive demand is likely to fuel inflation. "The December number was in line with our forecast," Lebanna said. "We expected headline inflation to rise to...

By Business Reporter 21 January 2008

Ghantsi Rich In Copper And Silver - Miners

The company says in a statement that the area is no stranger to exploration of this kind, having been drilled intermittently since 1962 by the likes of BHP Billiton, Anglo-American, Delta Gold and Newmont Mining Corp. Hana Mining says with more...

By Wanetsha Mosinyi
Staff Writer 21 January 2008

HEALTH CORNER

Techniques of stress management will vary according to the theoretical paradigm adhered to, but may include some of the following: Autogenic training * Cognitive therapy* Conflict...

DEBASHISH GANGOPADHYAY 21 January 2008

Calling On All Members To Support Ntuane

Such a scheme should act as a safety net in a country where the firing of employees and retrenchments are the order of the day. We wish to encourage Ntuane to have the motion designed in such a way as to have the scheme extended both to those who...

EDITOR 21 January 2008

Etcetera II

I approach cautiously, unsure as to what is going on, and find two vehicles coming from the Odi side waiting for me to pass so that they could then round the tractor and pass on. But why was this tractor stopped in such an extraordinary place? It...

SANDY GRANT 21 January 2008

Nits Torment HIV/AIDS Patients

The patients were being bitten by nits (mankgantsetse in Setswana), the parasitic tiny black insects found on the necks of fowls. Initially, they did not see the miscreants who were crawling all over the grass-thatched structures built as shelter for...

By Gale Ngakane
Correspondent 21 January 2008

Issues In Education

With this measure in place, post junior secondary students will choose between vocational and academic education and stand equal chance of proceeding to a university for relevant programmes." This is a significant policy shift and if this measure...

D. MOLEFE
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S. WEEKS 21 January 2008

The Winners Code

The strength of your resolution or the passion with which you hold your resolution deeply within you is far more important than the content of the resolution itself. Resolutions by their very nature are a declaration of the intent to get new and...

GEORGE CHINGARANDE 21 January 2008

Special Constables Deserve Better

During the festive season, we did not have any problems because of the constables. However, I am not pleased with the salaries paid to these officers. Can you imagine somebody who spend the night patrolling and protecting lives and property being...

21 January 2008

No Winner Announced

The competition is closed for entries, but neither the short list nor the final draw have yet been effected. This is to be done through chosen auditors, and the logistics of the draw are still being worked out by Standard Chartered Bank and the...

21 January 2008

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Ramatlhakwana Heads For Santos

He has been invited by compatriot and Santos' new coach David Bright. Ramatlhakwana has been in top form for Chiefs since the start of the season, helping the Kgatleng outfit to maintain an unbeaten record as they challenge for the league honours....

By Tshepo Molwane
Staff Writer 21 January 2008

Shock As Ajax Sign Selolwane

The Botswana international left Santos for Cosmos at the start of the current campaign, but made just two appearances for Ezenkosi after taking long to secure his South African citizenship papers. And on Wednesday he was sent off playing for...

21 January 2008

Lombala Kills BMC

The slip-ups allowed Santos to stage a dramatic comeback to beat the Lobatse side 2-1 after trailing for most part of the game at the UB Stadium. With six minutes to go, Lombala failed to cut an easy cross from the left and Thapelo Sethebethe made...

By Chippa Legodimo
Correspondent 21 January 2008

Simanyana Inspires GU To Victory

Sithole, who joined the Reds from Mochudi Centre Chiefs in December, only started work this week after spending sometime in his country. Though he did not sit on the bench, he instructed the technical crew from the stands through the cellphone. The...

By Tshepo Molwane
Staff Writer 21 January 2008

Form Five Leaver Faces Long Jail Term

The 20-year-old Form Five leaver was taken to prison last Friday to await sentencing by magistrate Olivier Zvedi. He was been found guilty of having sexual intercourse with a 14-year old Standard Seven pupil in February 2007 though he knew the girl...

By Bame Piet
Staff Writer 21 January 2008

Employees' Shock As Sarnia Is Liquidated

Vijay Kalyanaraman, the provisional liquidator found himself under 'arrest' at the company's workshop in Tlokweng after he broke the bad news. He said that as per a High Court order on December 14, 2007, the company has ceased operations and is now...

By Oliver Modise
Staff Writer 21 January 2008

Botswana Student Surmounts The Unknown

But currently, 24-year-old Kutlwelo Poloko Mariri is the best student in the subject in her class at Limpopo University in South Africa. The feat has earned her free membership of the South African Association of Audiologists. She now harbours...

By Chandapiwa Baputaki
Staff Writer 21 January 2008

Food For The Soul

To answer the question, detoxification is the process of converting dangerous substances into harmless ones. How do you actually do that? The process can be simple or complicated depending on how much toxins you have piled up into your system. And...

BOITSHEPO GIYOSE 21 January 2008

Talking Musica

The other day, I saw a screaming headline in the newspaper for which I make most of my local contributions: "BOMU suspends Franco". Uhu. How does the leadership of BOMU, which has not been elected by anybody, surviving on the naivete of a membership...

RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE 21 January 2008

Pop Stars Forges Ahead Despite Poor Turnout

From the onset it was clear that the few participants were a gifted lot who just needed to have their voices polished. First on stage was Lobatse-bred Palesa Gaotlhobogwe who started singing in Standard Five. Gaotlhobogwe says that from an earlier...

By Gasebalwe Seretse
Staff Writer 21 January 2008

BNF Elections' Board Resigns

Party publicity secretary, Moeti Mohwasa said over the weekend that they received a resignation letter from board members on Friday. However, he did not disclose the reasons why the team quit. "This is an internal matter that I would not want to...

By Kagiso Sekokonyane
Staff Writer 21 January 2008

Power cut reports surprise Botswana

Lesotho, Mozambique and Swaziland face partial cuts". Botswana imports 75 per cent of its electricity primarily from South Africa. And Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) and Eskom recently renewed the supply agreement. When contacted...

STAFF WRITER 22 January 2008

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22 January 2008

AS I SEE IT

Not changed only in the way it can foil heists, by gunning down heavily armed bandits, 11 of them, and all the police officers coming out unscathed from the firefight; or in the way the politics has veered and changed from liberation to democracy and...

MICHAEL DINGAKE 22 January 2008

Report predicts 5% GDP growth for Botswana

"The mining sector encountered some problems in 2006 as output contracted, undermining GDP growth which came in at a little over 4 percent, the weakest performance for many years," says the report. "With mining output showing signs of recovering...

BRIAN BENZA
Staff Writer 22 January 2008

DTC suspends Sightholders

As a result of the Antwerp criminal court judgment of 6th December 2007 relating to what has become known as the Brenig case, the DTC has communicated to a number of current sightholders that it is suspending supply to them, 'with immediate effect,'...

22 January 2008

Gospel artistes at loggerheads

The saying that dynamite comes in small packages is fitting for Vusi. He burst onto the gospel music scene like a firecracker in 2005 after the release of his debut album Ntate re Thuse, produced by Leteane. He was then a nippy 13-year-old who...

CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 22 January 2008

Bingi Nite Vibes steps up tempo

To set the ball rolling, Bingi Nite Vibes has established a recording studio in Tlokweng and has already recorded two projects - one for Ras Anada with 12 songs - and a solid compilation album with 20 songs involving six different local and...

MARTIN NYIRENDA
Correspondent 22 January 2008

Four-team showdown set for Friday

Log leaders Mochudi Centre Chiefs and the sleeping giants of Botswana football, Extension Gunners are to clash against South African Premier League sides Moroka Swallows and Jomo Cosmos. Initially, SuperSport United were expected to be part of...

TSHEPO MOLWANE
Staff Writer 22 January 2008

Boxers confident of victory

The boxers Hebert Nkabiti (64kg), captain Thato 'Hands of Stone' Batshegi (57 kg), Khumiso Ikgopoleng (54kg) and Gaolatlhe Mpotsang 69kg have been in camp since December. Nkabiti told Mmegi Sport that they go to Algeria with a mission to bring gold...

MOGOMOTSI MOLOI
Correspondent 22 January 2008

ECCO continues to struggle

Agonising misses by Bonolo Fraser and Mandla Sibanda proved costly for ECCO and allowed Fighters to claim the scalp of the Francistown side. The first half was short of good football as both teams puffed and huffed. Most of ECCO's passes...

CHIPPA LEGODIMO
Correspondent 22 January 2008

Electoral crisis at BNF?

The party spokesperson, Moeti Mohwasa told Mmegi yesterday that the party is on course to hold primary elections as scheduled. He added that the recent resignation of the party's electoral board would have no major effect on the envisaged primary...

TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA
Staff writer 22 January 2008

Mogae's first bye-bye

People - mainly of the BaBirwa and BaTswapong ethnic stock - came from neighbouring Selebi-Phikwe, Sefhophe and others to hear and see Mogae address them for the last time as President at the Mmadinare Kgotla. A variety of gifts, which included...

ONALENNA MODIKWA
Staff Writer 22 January 2008

P1 million hoax lands winner in sick bed

At one moment she was told that she had won P1 million from Standard Chartered Bank only to learn later that it was a sad joke. Last week, Mothibi, a receptionist at the Botswana College of Distance Learning (BOCODOL), told a local newspaper how she...

LEKOPANYE MOOKETSI
Correspondent 22 January 2008

Kasane, Gaborone bear brunt of roadside sex

The study was conducted by the University of Botswana-TRS Ditumelo Research Team and BOTUSA in order to find out how much faith-based organisations (FBO) contributed to the fight against HIV/AIDS. The research revealed that in Kasane unprotected...

PATRICIA MAGANU
Staff Writer 22 January 2008

IEC awaits by-election dates

Seeletso was responding to Mmegi's enquiry on pending by-elections for vacancies in the Gaborone City Council (GCC) and North West District after two councillors died. In Gaborone, Botswana National Front (BNF) and Marulamantsi councillor Kabo...

OLIVER MODISE
Staff Writer 22 January 2008

Limkokwing sets the record straight

He said this at a press conference he addressed with President Festus Mogae, immediately after the graduation ceremony at Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC). Dr Limkokwing told the media that: "The students we employ after graduating...

TUMELO SETSHOGO
Correspondent 22 January 2008

Phikwe 'Domkrag' ridicules Moupo

Sesame South councillor, Mookane Mmusi said the BNF has to be honest and admit that it is faced with a leadership crisis. He was speaking at a weekend BDP rally held in his ward.Mmusi said he read in the local press that few people turned up for...

KENNETH BANDA
Correspondent 22 January 2008

Blame govt, not rain

Having been sun-baked by the raging sun of the past seasons, the feel of raindrops on the caked earth and weather beaten faces is a refreshing change. But like spilt personalities, we tend to welcome the rains and then rant and rave about the...

EDITOR 22 January 2008

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